When easytag opens these files it automatically changes something in them (don't know what - it doesn't seem to be the text of the tags, but it highlights them as changed files), and if I save them without changing anything myself, pmetatagger can read them.

I tried shortening an mp3 to upload it here, but mp3splt does not have an option to retain the original id3 information, and using id3tag to copy the information from the original file results in a tag with the same information, but which pmetatagger can read

Is there any reason we couldn't have a checkbox to remember the previous file's metadata, instead of asking after the first file? That way the feature could remember data from files other than the first one opened, and could even be turned on and off as you go along. It would save all that time to build the gui asking the question too

It might also pay to think carefully about whether there is a better way to do it first

e.g. the user may not know until they get to the next file that they should have saved the information, so a button to apply the tags from the previous file might be better than a checkbox to remember the tags for the next file. But that would be inefficient for doing a whole lot of files with the same tags, as you would have to click the button each time.

I've thought a bit, but most ways of improving it could get very complicated, and I think the best thing might be to have a checkbox like I suggested, and also add a button to go back to the previous file. My bash skills aren't good enough to know if that would be easy to do, but I imagine it should be.

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